Actually in the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā Nagarjuna does not use the term advaya, not does he talk about "nonduality." If advaya is used in terms of the Madhyamaka, it is a much later development. Just looked this up. You're right, I posted an unwarranted assumption :toilet: I did find that the term adv...

. . . "That's better" ... "Thank you for sharing your opinions; however, I find nothing in them, or their delivery, that is compelling." That overall condescending tone of yours, won't mask the hard facts. Buddha did talk about a "doer" and an "other". Sorry that it goes against your thirty plus ye...

Have to make amends (though not my fault completely). I am not one to back away from swallowing my pride. What do you guys think? Is Paṭicca-samuppāda a Theory of Everything? Or, an even broader question, is the Dhamma supposed to explain "everything" as some seem to hold or is it more a limited ep...

------------- Interpenetrationality. Damdifino what this word is supposed to mean in a practical sense. If you are asking about my sticking of the compound affix "-ality" on the end of "Interpenetration", it is technically a redundancy, but one that is well attested in the English language, which, ...

Thanks for posting this. I think your synopsis of the essay is intriguing enough for me to want to read it. I agree with his ideas in what you posted, particularly about what he said in what I left in place below. For me this is quite congruent with vipassana practice. . . . As Hamilton puts it the ...

Actually in the Mūlamadhyamakakārikā Nagarjuna does not use the term advaya, not does he talk about "nonduality." If advaya is used in terms of the Madhyamaka, it is a much later development. Just looked this up. You're right, I posted an unwarranted assumption :toilet: I did find that the term adv...

Everything is brahman, everything is nothing; either way he's still saying everything is the same thing. "[E]verything is nothing" is not what Nagarjuna is saying. And even if he were "Everything is brahman, everything is nothing; either way he's still saying everything is the same thing" is not an...

Since what is now termed as 'non-dual' came about with with the works of Nagarjuna and his interpreters as well as later Yogacara thinkers, I would say that any early Buddhist schools like Sautrantika and Sarvastivad are also not to be seen as 'nondual'. Nagarjuna used the term "non-dual?" No, as y...